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Michael Gove has held talks with a scientist who believes that genetics,
rather than teaching, plays a key role in a child’s intelligence.

News of the meeting between the Education Secretary and Robert Plomin, a
behavioural geneticist, comes after Mr Gove’s outgoing policy adviser warned
that the link between intelligence and genetics had been largely ignored by
Britain’s education system.

In a 250-page paper, Dominic Cummings also said that teaching standards were
mediocre and that billions of pounds had been wasted on funding university
places. He pointed to research that suggested that an individual child’s
performance was based on genetics